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Vallgren, Carl-Johan

Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren had a hard time deciding whether to focus on music or writing. Growing up, he attended various music schools and was fully committed to becoming a musician. If you ask him now what his profession is, he answers storyteller.
Vallgren was born in Linköping in and grew up at Skogstorp near Falkenberg. His mother was a childminder who later trained as a preschool ...

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Arkadij Renko

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Police officer in the Soviet Union and Russia, at first a detective chief inspector, but later demoted after he tried to expose the shady dealings of communist bigwigs. His father was a notorious general. Arkady Renko is middle-aged, thin with a pale face and greying dark hair. His first wife, Zaya, was unfaithful and left him, Martin Cruz Smith tells us. His second wife, Irina, dies after...

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